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Farmhouse on a budget

Delhi opens the floodgates for farmhouses, causing property prices in South Delhi to crash 25%

LinkedIn bans prostitutes from networking

However, owner of several legal Nevada brothels Dennis Hof said many of his employees have LinkedIn accounts

The film is being developed, produced and financed by Rovio Entertainment and will be released worldwide by Sony Pictures on July 1, 2016

Last month, Dubai's police chief said that a number of Ferraris to be introduced to the force will be driven by female officers

The auction house had offered a special "red classic" photography section to commemorate the 120th birthday of Mao

From the mud baths of Turkey to the mineral springs in the Czech Republic, the author recommends some offbeat destinations for healing the mind, ...

The author of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies prefers books with action

There are beers from around the world whose names don't ring a bell. The adventurous can try them out

Let us, for a moment, ignore the debate on femininity, which has been going on since Angelina Jolie disclosed that she had gone in for a double ...

Report advises people to minimise their exposure to the chemical by avoiding nonstick cookware and packaged foods like microwave popcorn

These superbugs kill about half the people they attack, and nearly one in 20 hospital patients become infected with one

New research has identified markers in the blood that can indicate if the disease was starting to develop in the brain

The breakthrough creates the possibility of an inexpensive and simple-to-use tool that could have far-reaching benefits

The new book by the prolific pair of Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya puts the word debunking in its subtitle and doesn't look back

Tapan Ghosh's take on villains, vamps and henchmen in Hindi cinema is different from other recent books on the subject in three critical ways

Anne Norton reviews the principal areas where Western philosophers and political commentators have painted a negative view of Islam

During the Vietnam War, Bill Colby of the Central Intelligence Agency ran the Phoenix programme, which set out to "neutralise" the Viet Cong by ...

For all its noise about gender equality, the media seems reluctant to overstep the boundaries of regressive social norms

"Is the vomiting accompanied by cramps?""The patient's in the second stage of labour. She is waiting under the tallest neem tree in Kishanpura ...

Last year, Kabir turned to his diary of two decades ago to check how he'd fared against the goals he'd set himself - the serious as well as the ...